Hi, upon starting JOSM I was greeted by, among other things, messages that loaded content from "wikidata.org" and "sophox.org".
I have not actively enabled something that would make these queries, nor have I been asked for my consent to transmit the fact that someone is using JOSM at this IP number to wikidata.org or sophox.org. I can understand that if I load Ilya's geochat plugin it will phone home to Ilya's server, or if I enable certain imagery layers they will load data from the imagery server. Also it is clear that JOSM will access the OSM and JOSM servers. But I think that we should not add random third party web sites that are under control of neither OSMF nor the JOSM team to the mix without explaining this to the user and asking for their consent. Would it perhaps make sense to build a generic "consent to access server X" feature into the JOSM core, and anyone - whether core or plugin - would then have to acquire user consent once before accessing a remote resource? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
